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The Bungle Book: Some Errors by Which We Live

Autor G. V. Loewen
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 noi 2015
The Bungle Book presents a demythology of six salient concepts central to our modern self-understanding, The "suspects" of the self, the machine, and God, as well as the "senses" of home, love, and freedom are subjected to an intense analytical scrutiny that is back-dropped by the work of Gadamer, Heidegger, Lingis, Midgely, and other critical voices. Book-ended by a detailed introduction that asks us to "unexpect the expected" and a conclusion that suggests that we need to stop compulsively making sense of living on in order to become more sensible about its human ambiguities, The Bungle Book will be of interest to any who take seriously the contemporary challenge of a global and interconnected existence.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780761866428
ISBN-10: 0761866426
Pagini: 314
Dimensiuni: 153 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția University Press of America
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction: The Usual Suspects
The Unusual Is Suspect
Unexpect the Expected
Chapter 1: The Singular Self
1.1Narcissus
1.2Why Is "I" So Important?
1.3They Are Therefore I Am
Chapter 2: The Machine Messiah
2.1Soulless Solace
2.2The Mindless
2.3Killjoy Was Here
Chapter 3: Wanted Dead or Alive: God
3.1The Afterlife of God
3.2Dead Souls Again
3.3Fans or Fanatics?
Chapter 4: No Place like Home
4.1Random "Birthrights"
4.2Cloudy Skies
4.3Where Is the Heart?
Chapter 5: Either in or out of Love
5.1Fantasy and Phantasm
5.2Crisis in the Life of a Lover
5.3Not Yours, Not Mine
Chapter 6: "Freedom of Thought," Thought Freedom
6.1Corporeal Consciousness
6.2Incorporeal Conscience
6.3Liberty's Pirouette
Conclusion: Non-Sense: Making Sense of Nonsense
Stop Making Sense
Start Being Sensible
Notes
References
Index

Recenzii

Praise for We Other Nazis (2013):

Loewen doesn't draw attention to the extreme phenomenon of neo-Nazism. The author points to a more subtle fascism of our days. . . . Not so much different from the Nazi period, we live in a world which is fascinated with technology, power, speed and authority itself. The more philosophical idea beyond this claim is that the human being had always striven to overcome what already exists, to get beyond the life that is shown to be the one into which we have been thrown. . . . As Loewen suggests the most important thing we can do is to mature ourselves from the state of dependency and try to reassess our 'Nazi behavior' so that we avoid the coming of another world disaster.

Praise for Hermeneutic Pedagogy (2012):

The philosophical idea that drives him in this undertaking is that bringing into consciousness the structures and conditions that determined our own experience. What is gained through this process is what we call self-knowledge. . . . Through phronesis the hermeneutical circle of experiential pedagogy, as Loewen calls it, closes and accomplishes itself. It enlightens the other two constitutive dimensions, hexis and praxis, it puts them into question and reveals the abilities they do not capture, but which are central to the human being as a learning being. Phronesis names the radical learning experience that one individual has, experience which cannot be taught. Because it puts all that one can teach or study in another light, it is a hermeneutical experience par excellence.